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[Sandy Benjamin @sandybenjamin]

so look… I wrote this beautiful ass story and a gang of amazing people helped me bring this shit to life so enjoy 🎈

‘LOW INCOME BROWSING’ AVAILABLE ON ALL PLATFORMS.

big special thanks to @SHAMONEYXL we did it big bro 🤘🏽

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[Be A King @BerniceKing]

As we observe Black Music Month, this 1958 Jet cover reflects a part of my mother’s public life that is sometimes overlooked. Her voice and artistry were part of the freedom movement, and music was one of the ways she contributed to the struggle for justice.

Her artistry and her activism were never separate.

#CorettaScottKing #BlackMusicMonth #JetMagazine #JetBeauty #MLK

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Exclusive look at the making of the “Thriller” music video in the ‘MICHAEL’ movie.

Watch now at home and in theaters.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Again!!! Michael Jackson!!! is!!! setting !!!records!!!!👑

[TIFF @TIFF_NET]

“I gotta dig deeper. I gotta get back to the basics.” 🎭

Denzel Washington shared how Viola Davis' performance in FENCES reawakened his love and understanding of acting in film.

[The Associated Press @AP]

The Obama Presidential Center opens to the general public on Juneteenth after a celebratory dedication in Chicago with dignitaries. The roughly $850 million project covers both the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president.

[Variety @Variety]

Keith David gets emotional and says he’s “living his dream” while accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“I started out as a singer, then I wanted to be a preacher, and I wanted to be a lawyer and a bank president. Then I discovered I could be an actor and be all those things.”

https://t.co/3ZYYSgVgW6

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

‘MICHAEL’ has officially crossed $780M at the global box office.

[Film Crave @_filmcrave]

Happy 40th Birthday to Ryan Coogler!

[ESSENCE @Essence]

What began as a love letter to Chicago’s South Side became one of the most important Black stories ever told on television.

For years, The Chi gave us community, conversation, heartbreak, healing, joy, and characters that felt like family. It made Chicago feel like home while spotlighting the beauty, complexity, and humanity of life with care and intention.

Now, as the longest-running Black drama series in premium cable and streaming history, ESSENCE honors the legacy of a cultural institution that changed the landscape of storytelling forever.

This is their final curtain call, and serves as a standing ovation to the stories, performances, and cultural impact that made The Chi a defining force in television.

Featuring Lena Waithe, Luke James, Hannaha Hall, Birgundi Baker, Jacob Latimore, and Jason Weaver, this moment is both a celebration and a thank you. To the cast. To the city. To the culture.

Some stories entertain us.
The Chi became a part of us.

Read more of our digital cover story at https://t.co/HJqw0uhsKU

[Tina @TinaLocklair]

Michael B Jordan released the cast of his new boxing series “Delphi”

From his Creed Universe coming soon to Amazon.

Filming is underway

[david jonsson updates @jonssonupdates]

Today’s the day! ‘Wasteman’ is now available to watch on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Youtube TV.

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV is developing ‘American Comfort’ (working title), a soul food restaurant comedy from black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Oprah Winfrey and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Deadline has learned.

Oscar and Emmy nominee Danielle Brooks is set to star and executive produce in the project, inspired by the life story of restaurateur Melba Wilson, which landed at Apple TV in a competitive situation, we hear.

More details here: https://t.co/jOs7qesPPl

[Sandy Benjamin @sandybenjamin]

@carolinerenard_ 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Caroline Renard @carolinerenard_]

Your girl is in Deadline! Making my next movie!!!

https://t.co/sC4xppcV8f

[KENYON DIXON @kennygotsoul]

Great music never dies 🎶💫

Love to my LA Brother @terracemartin
Thank You @BET 🥂

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Christopher Nolan says movie theaters will be around forever 🍿

"Theaters are part of history, and they’re part of the future as well"

"When you watch a comedy in a room full of laughing people ... a tragedy where everybody’s sad at the same time... that’s very, very important and very unique to cinema"

"The idea of the movie as a communal experience, as a place where we come together to experience a story, I’m fully confident that that’s a part of our culture forever"

(via @60Minutes)

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Sterling K. Brown talks about why he chose to be part of the film “Is God Is”

“So there’s the macro and the micro. I love Black women, and I love seeing Black women win, right? I thought this was an incredibly creative script, something different and new, and I think that we, as a community, have been asking for creative and new stories, right? And I feel like the more diverse the landscape of stories are that we get to tell, the more people will stop putting us into a box in terms of what a Black movie is, what a Black story is. We are everything, and so the opportunity to do everything is something that excites me. Aleshea (Harris) wrote a play, then she adapted the play, and she directed the play, and I think she did so brilliantly. I also love the idea that Black women get a chance to be messy in this film, like hella messy. I feel like oftentimes we’re asked, in many stories, to be voices of reason. Sort of the sensible side component of a larger story, and that’s not the case in this. That is exciting to me.”

🔗 https://t.co/JNAWUWLa9O

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

The director of "Is God Is", Aleshea Harris, spoke about the message she wants to leave with the film

“I hope it is a reminder that anything is possible in narrative; that it is a reminder that all Black folks — especially, and including, Black women — belong in any kind of story. There are no limits to what we can do.

I also hope that it holds the door open for the other weird — I consider myself a weirdo — other people who have a weird, quirky thing that we haven't quite seen before; the other people who are ambitious and playing with tone in some of the ways that I did.

I hope that they can point to Is God Is and be like, ‘See? That was the thing that hopefully worked,’ you know?”

[Black Girl Nerds @BlackGirlNerds]

Filmmaker Boots Riley on why it's important to see his movie 'I Love Boosters' in theaters. The film will make its debut May 22nd.